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| | The dirty state we're in - Science - www.theage.com.au |
 | | In fact, Victorians are among the worst greenhouse gas polluters on the planet. | | | Local environmental groups hope the state's recent wild weather will be a wakeup call to Victorians and motivate them to lobby politicians against investing so much money and hope in brown coal. | | | According to state Energy Minister Theo Theophanous, the Government has managed to strike a balance between the two positions with its Greenhouse Challenge for Energy paper, which was released two months ago and is open for public comment until Friday. |
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/Science/The-dirty-state-were-in/2005/02/13/1108229853716.html
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| | Novel: A Forum on Fiction: Wired Victorians |
| | Overt theorizing aside, one of the strengths of Dickens in Cyberspace is the rich vocabulary it provides for describing the anomalous historical phenomena called out of the shadows by a dialectical approach to the past. | | | Although cyber-resources such as Mitsuhara Matsuoka's pioneering Dickens Page and George P. Landow's Dickens Page on The Victorian Web receive passing mention, Dickens's latter-day home on the Internet is less a literal subject of inquiry than a metaphorical gesture toward the book's broader interests. | | | Rightly speaking, the book's touchstone historical figure is not Charles Dickens but Charles Babbage, the mathematician, political economist, and prodigious inventor who in 1833 designed the Analytical Engine, a calculating machine with punch cards, internal memory, and a central processing unit; if built, it would have been the first digital computer. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3643/is_200310/ai_n9520934
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| | BookkooB : The Victorians - A.N. Wilson : Compare Book Prices |
| | Book Details / Review - supplied by Amazon UK AN Wilson’s The Victorians is the longest and liveliest of the books which have appeared in the wake of the centenary of Victoria& death. | | | I am sure that even people who have studied the period inside out will find something new in this book and there are lots of engaging and amusing tidbits, including some fantastic gossip-mongering, too. | | | Furthermore, his use of biography to illustrate his analysis of the Victorians and Victorianism means that his theories, as well as the concerns of the era, are personalised and made much more vivid for it. |
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http://www.bookkoob.co.uk/book/0099451867.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Eminent Victorians: Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold: Books: Lytton ... |
| | Strachey was a Victorian eccentric, educated at Trinity College, where he became a member of the secret society of "the Apostles," an elite group of passionate intellectuals who rejected Victorian mores, which later evolved into the Bloomsbury group (E.M Forester, Leonard and Virginia Woolf). | | | Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. | | | Perhaps Lytton Strachey was the first to create "the new biography," not wrapping his subjects in flowery adjectives as was the style of his times, but instead skewering them with sarcastic and scathingly funny written portraits. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156286971?v=glance
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| | HIST 450a Victorians: Syllabus |
| | While this was the engine that drove Britain's political and economic predominance on the world stage, it was also the source of much political and social discontent at home. | | | The era to which she gave her name saw one of the most remarkable transformations in that history and indeed in the history of the world. | | | Victorian society was often constrained by a strict and stultifying class system, with its own narrow moral and social codes, and yet from within this conformity emerged some of the most creative and intellectually fearless minds of any age. |
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http://www.lclark.edu/~campion/hist450a
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| | BBC NEWS Magazine What the Victorians can teach us about city life |
| | Hunt notes that some of the great Victorian cities have become shadows of their former selves over the past 50 years. | | | The way the Victorians did things more than a century ago could be making a comeback - not in the way Margaret Thatcher intended, but in the way we live modern urban life. | | | Hunt says there's one thing we should try to retain from history: the Victorians' positive attitude towards city life. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3809821.stm
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| | V&A - Victorians - Nature |
| | The collection and display of preserved specimens underlined this attitude. | | | They believed that by mapping the world they could gain the knowledge to control it. | | | Darwin's evolutionary theory and the evidence of dinosaur fossils forced the Victorians to question established views about the origins of life, and mankind's relationship with the natural world. |
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http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/victorians/finals/nature.html
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| | Victorians ~ primary project |
| | Ideas and Resources to support a Primary Project about Victorians using the Internet. | | | Answers to some of the questions posed on the activity sheets are provided below. | | | These hands-on activities are designed to encourage children to find out about different aspects of Victorians. |
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http://www.learning-connections.co.uk/curric/cur_pri/victorians/ho_ind.html
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| | VoS - Voice of the Shuttle |
| | Glorious Nonsense: Jabberwocky (Very interesting site with a short essay on non/sense and which contemplates "Jabberwocky" in the most un/likely of places; also a link to the "Wonderland" WebRing and a nice illustrated version of Carroll's poem)(David Shaw) | | | The Disraeli Project ("The Disraeli Project is a Research Unit of Queen's University at Kingston, Canada, engaged in producing a scholarly edition of the correspondence of Benjamin Disraeli") (Queen's U., Canada) | | | These e-texts are based on authoritative editions (often in the version of their first publication), and retains notes, page numbers, and other essential elements of a scholarly text. |
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http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2751
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| | Help Your Child Discover... |
| | This website gives ideas on how to help them find out more about the topic at home. | | | Click here if you would like to go to the schemes of work. | | | Your child will be learning about the Victorians at school. |
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http://www.parentscentre.gov.uk/discover/index.cfm?menu=victor&main=victor/victor&on=home
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| | Encyclopedia: Victorians |
| | In January 1858, the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, responded to the Orsini plot against French emperor Napoleon III, the bombs for which were purchased in Birmingham, by attempting to make such acts a felony, but the resulting uproar forced him to resign. | | | The rise of theosophism and other occult interests in the 1890s. | | | Victorian art was popular art, and paintings were more widely discussed in society than they are even today when technology offers so many rival attractions. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Victorians
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| | Victorian Web Sites - The Victorian Literary Studies Archive |
| | Victorians Institute, The - an organization of scholars and students centered in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the USA. | | | Victorian Society in America, The - Founded in 1966 by such legends of historic preservation as Brendan Gill, Henry Russell Hitchcock, and Margot Gayle. | | | Victorian Society, The - founded in 1958 as a national pressure group fighting to protect Victorian and Edwardian buildings in England and Wales. |
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http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Victorian.html
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| | Victorians Homework for kids |
| | They were usually large, in 1870 the many families had five or six children.Each member of the family had their own role and children were taught to "know their place" and "be seen and not heard". | | | We can study Victorian maps and documents, such as the forms that were filled in during the census. | | | Britain became the most powerful and richest country in the world, with the largest empire that had ever existed, ruling a quarter of the world's population. |
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http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/victorians.html
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| | Victorian Theories of Sex and Sexuality |
| | Victorian theories of evolution believed that these feminine and masculine attributes traced back to the lowest forms of life. | | | Other than the different sex organs and physical differences, men were considered the active agents, who expended energy while women were sedentary, storing and conserving energy. | | | For during this period, even in seeking any man or woman's ultimate goal in achieving the apparently conservative happy ending of marriage, Victorians were inevitably led to the consummation of their love and the creation one's own home and family. |
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http://www.victorianweb.org/gender/sextheory.html
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| | Eminent Victorians - definition of Eminent Victorians in Encyclopedia |
| | Its fame rests on the irreverence and wit Strachey brought to bear on three men and a woman who had till then been regarded as heroes and heroine. | | | Eminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey first published in 1918 and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. | | | Embed a dictionary search in your own web page |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Eminent_Victorians
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| | TheCriticalPoet - Featured Movement - Victorian Poetry |
| | Gerard Manley Hopkins experimented very boldly in the form, and produced some of his best work in what he claimed to be sonnets, though they are often scarcely recognizable as such. | | | Culturally and in many ways socially, the Victorian period saw the outset and display of the problems which the 20th century had to solve. | | | Literature in Great Britain, the Victorians and their Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Precursors: A Chronology |
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http://thecriticalpoet.tripod.com/victorian.htm
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| | Ministerial Advisory Council of Senior Victorians: Office of Senior Victorians - Department for Victorian Communities, ... |
| | The Council is working with the Victorian Government through the Department for Victorian Communities to enhance the relationship between the Government and older people, and to challenge the cultural biases against older people. | | | She has been a community activist in Moreland for many years and was instrumental with FILEF Women's Group in the establishment in Coburg in the 80's of the first work-related child care centre in Victoria that involved workers, unions and the three levels of government. | | | Mrs West is the President of National Seniors Geelong and the Victorian Chairperson of National Seniors, a member of the COTA National Seniors State Policy Council in Victoria and her local Neighbourhood Watch committee. |
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| | Reactionary San Francisco / Our attachment to Victorians may keep us from moving forward |
| | Victorians were not, as many San Franciscans assume, made with individuality in mind. | | | If you believe, as the Situationists did, that urban design is the infrastructure on which all other social innovation is constructed, then the answer would be no. A Prada building may not reinvigorate our society, but it wouldn't be keeping everything the same, either. | | | After all, Victorians were the home of choice for many hippies, and every generation since then has chosen them as the staging ground for their bohemianism. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/archive/2004/08/31/carollloyd.DTL
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| | The Victorians |
| | Victorians by John Malam, published by Hodder Wayland. | | | In case your children are studying the Victorians this term, here are several websites and books devoted to the subject. | | | Gorgeous Georgians and Vile Victorians by Terry Deary, published by Scholastic Hippo. |
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http://www.familyrapp.com/Results/archive_results_details.asp?ArticleID=201
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| | Victorians |
| | Victorian Web links - over 300 links | | | This website is a biographical guide to the world of Victorian film. | | | They worked hard to satisfy the needs of their parents because families were very poor and they didn't have enough money, so children worked. |
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http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/primary/Victorian
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| | Alcoholism among Victorians |
| | Behavior such as drunkenness was strongly disapproved of because of its association with the lower class. | | | With nothing to work for, they found themselves consistently drunk and were viewed as those who were just wasting away, causing angst to Victorians who belonged to higher classes in society. | | | These men, and many other individuals, were so much affected by the changes of the time that they were found out of work, in unfortunate family situations and their only comfort was the taste of alcohol. |
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http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/agunn/teaching/enl3251_spring2005/omf/BACHMAN.htm
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| | The Grand Victorians |
| | Many of these houses were lost in the great fire that followed the 1906 earthquake, and others were torn down over the years to makes way for new development. | | | Turn left on Franklin to reach the Haas-Lilienthal House, one of the most elaborate Victorians in the city and one that is open to the public. | | | From 1850 to 1900, 48,000 houses in the range of styles that we now call "Victorian" were built to accommodate the city's burgeoning population. |
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| | Victorians Institute Homepage |
| | Members are encouraged to attend the annual meeting, and participate in the governance of the organization. | | | Welcome to the home page for the Victorians Institute, an organization of scholars and students centered in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the USA. | | | The Victorians Institute Journal, an annual publication of studies in Victorian literature, art, and culture, is produced under the auspice of the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. |
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| | The Victorian Language of Flowers |
| | She lived in Constantinople and wrote letters home which were published in 1763, after her death. | | | She wrote a friend at home in 1717 a Turkish love letter—the English of which is expressed by a pearl, a jonquil and a rose. | | | In reading through the meanings, I was reminded that death and disease were ever present in Victorian life, before modern medicine. |
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http://www.prairienet.org/herbsociety/hotm/vict_flowers.html
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| | The Victorians |
| | Middle-class Victorians were conscious about how they appeared to their neighbors. | | | The Victorians experienced tremendous changes in the economic, social, cultural and political arena during their age. | | | There are numerous web sites that provide varied information on the Victorians. |
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| | The Victorians |
| | Also, they give us some idea of how local and central government were coming to terms with the problem of poverty. | | | Did you know that the Victorians thought it was good luck to put a cat in the bricks of a house? | | | I suggest that you ask your teacher to go over the content headings for the units that you have covered, so that you do not waste valuable time looking at topics that will not come up in the June exam. |
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| | Victorians pumping billions into the pokies - National - www.theage.com.au |
| | Victorians pumping billions into the pokies - National - www.theage.com.au | | | VLGA chief executive Andrew Rowe said this showed the smoking ban had had an effect, but other measures were needed to reduce the amount Victorians were gambling away on pokies. | | | In the 2002-2003 financial year, which included two months without the smoking ban, Victorians lost $2.33 billion. |
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/28/1077677015676.html
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| | Victorians at War - Oral History Project - Overview |
| | The government disbanded the AWLA at the end of World War II. | | | Victorians at War - Oral History Project - Overview | | | The participation of Australia in overseas conflicts often caused great disruption to life at home. |
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| | V for Victory |
| | Though obviously political in origin, Walker’s images of 19th-century African Americans tortured with spikes seem to have no purpose other than the expression of an uncentered, unassuagable passion of destruction. | | | Experientially, "Secret Victorians" is an eclectic collection of recent work by 19 artists. | | | This record of meaningless but beautifully executed activity recalls the often-shallow occupations of the Victorian lady. |
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http://www.citypaper.net/articles/030801/ae.art.victorians.shtml
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| | The Victorians |
| | Under the influence of George Kelson, John Traherne and many others, some of the most spectacular creations of fur and feather were tied during this period. | | | The exuberence of the patterns reflected the confidence of the Victorians, and their beauty exceeded even that of the flies tied by Blacker and his generation. | | | The number of different patterns in common use was extraordinary, with Kelson giving 300 different tyings in his book, and Hale and Hardy even more. |
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http://www.flyfishinghistory.com/victoria.htm
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| | Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning |
| | Websites from Fathom's member institutions and other educational and governmental organizations that offer in-depth resources and archived materials relating to Victorian history. | | | Contributors engage with topics such as industrial culture, religion and science and the broader issues of the politics of gender, sexuality and race. | | | Reflections on race and class issues in the Victorian era, including immigrant experiences, the stark realities of London's East End and the rise of the English middle class. |
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http://www.fathom.com/special/victorians
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| | Victorians |
| | Victorian Times Project: primary sources and information on education, transport, work and housing. | | | Queen Victoria: Images of her World: photos of the Queen and her family. | | | Victorian Art in Britain: short biographies of painters and links to museums and paintings. |
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http://www.ers.north-ayrshire.gov.uk/Victorians.htm
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| | King Arthur and the Victorians |
| | Idylls of the King, in the end, is a stern rebuke and warning to Tennyson’s contemporaries that the fabric of Victorian society was only as strong as the moral fiber of the individuals running it. | | | Tennyson’s was not the only Victorian voice to describe the reign of King Arthur. |
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http://www.moval.edu/faculty/adderleym/Arthur/victorians.htm
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| | They are, in one sense, haphazard visions-- that is to say, my choice of subjects has been determined by no desire to construct a system or to prove a theory, but by simple motives of convenience and of art. | | | I have attempted, through the medium of biography, to present some Victorian visions to the modern eye. | | | He had to force himself to scrape together money, to write articles for the students' Gazette, to make plans |
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| | Black Victorians |
| | By the 1760s, the Black population had grown to somewhere between 20,000 and 40,000; Granville Sharp estimated the number of black servants in London alone at 20,000, in a city of 676,250 people. | | | For the English aristocracy and the newly rich, a Black page or handmaiden was an asset to be shown off as evidence of exotic wealth, so in the 18th century Black people were ironically more evident in the art and writing of the time than they were to be in the early Victorian period. | | | Some slaves were landed and sold at London, Liverpool or Bristol, but many Black people were brought as domestic servants by returning sea-captains, colonial administrators and plantation owners. |
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http://www.victoriaspast.com/BlackLinks/blackhst.htm
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| | Victorians Institute Meetings |
| | Abstracts of the essays abover were published in Victorians Institute Journal, Volume 12 (1984). | | | Abstracts of the essays above were published in Victorians Institute Journal, Volume 14 (1986). | | | "Unruly Bodies: Victorian Liberals, Liberal Governance, and the Liberal Imagination" |
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| | Homework Center -European history - Homework Center - Multnomah County Library |
| | National and civil wars during the 16th and 17th centuries between Christian faiths led to much bloodshed and political upheaval in Europe, including the Thirty Years War. | | | Religion, philosophy, social customs, literature, science, technology, politics and gender issues of the Victorian period. | | | BBC presents this interactive site to help students understand how children worked, played and learned in Victorian England. |
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http://www.multcolib.org/homework/eurohist.html
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| | The Victorians Cyberhunt |
| | You could write the answers down when you find them or you could try a spot of multi-tasking by | | | The answers to these questions about the Victorians may be found by clicking on the link below each one. | | | As you do so you can find out all about Great Victorian Achievements! |
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http://www.icteachers.co.uk/children/cyberhunts/vichunt/vichunt.htm
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| | Art Business News: Reborn Victorians: today, a generation of contemporary artists is returning to photography's ... |
| | In March, MoPA presented the works of 13 cutting-edge artists in "Secret Victorians: Contemporary Photographers Working in 19th Century Processes" as a companion show to the museum's homage to pioneer photographer William Henry Fox Talbot, whose works from the early 1800s are seldom exhibited. | | | In December, MoPA will exhibit tintypes by Los Angeles artist Stephen Berkman, including commissioned portraits of actors Nicole Kidman and Jude Law made by Berkman for the upcoming Civil War movie, "Cold Mountain" which is slated for a Christmas Day release. | | | Although this new, handmade work is anchored in the technology of the past, it is infused with contemporary aesthetic ideas and reinvention. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HMU/is_10_30/ai_109083320
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| | Amazon.com: Northwest Victorians (Beautiful America (Paperback)): Books |
| | A Victorian Housebuilder's Guide : Woodward's National Architect of 1869 by George E. Woodward | | | The Victorian Home in America: With Over 250 Illustrations by John Maass | | | 100 Victorian Architectural Designs for Houses and Other Buildings (Dover Pictorial Archives) by A. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0898027268?v=glance
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| | Victorian Home Walk: San Francisco Historical Walking Tours |
| | Victorian Home Walk has been evaluated and listed in the following publications: | | | The Victorian Home Walk Tour offers insight on the City, its history and attractions in a casual, personal pace. | | | Recommended by the Los Angeles Times ("Victorians on View," Sept. 13, 1998). |
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| | Art Nouveau Glass from the Glass Encyclopedia |
| | Imitations of works of art from the past seemed to give the Victorians a sense of security and confidence in their own affluence. | | | The name Art Nouveau is derived from a Paris gallery called 'Maison de L'Art Nouveau', which played a role in displaying and popularising this style. | | | Art Nouveau was in part a reaction to the Victorian passion for imitating earlier styles like Classical and Renaissance, Baroque and Rococco styles. |
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http://www.glassencyclopedia.com/artnouveauglass.html
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| | Look-4-it: HISTORY |
| | Reappraising Political Theory Revisionist Studies in the History of Political Thought; Ball, Terence (Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota, USA) | | | Victorian Bloomsbury : Vol 1 The Early Literary History of the Bloomsbury Group; Rosenbaum, S. Edwardian Bloomsbury : Vol 2 The Early Literary History of the Bloomsbury Group; Rosenbaum, S.P. (Professor Emeritus of English Literature, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada) | | | History of the British Coal Industry, Volume 3: 1830-1913 Victorian Pre-eminence; Church, Roy (Professor of Economic and Social History, East Anglia University);Hall, Alan;Kanefsky, John |
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| | Strachey, Lytton. 1918. Eminent Victorians |
| | Innovating the application of psychological principles to history, Strachey presents four artful biographies, or “Victorian visions.” | | | Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Nonfiction > Lytton Strachey > Eminent Victorians |
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| | Famous Victorians |
| | Some of the famous Victorians that made an impact on the political and cultural landscape of Victoria, Vancouver Island, and British Columbia. There are more famous Victorians - most notably from recent history - but these six are the ones most famous for their establishment of Victoria. | | | The Father of BC, James Douglas will long be remembered for the prominent role he played in sculpting the province of British Columbia out of a remote Hudson's Bay Company fur post on Vancouver Island and establishing what would become the City of Victoria. | | | Duplication or reproduction of Tourism Victoria's website in any form, whether it be in whole or in part is not permitted without written consent and authorization from Tourism Victoria. |
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| | B3TA : CHALLENGE : THE VICTORIAN INTERNET |
| | We need to know, for our own private, ahem, 'research' - show people your ideas on the messageboard. | | | What would the Victorians have made of the interweb? |
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http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/victorian
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| | Eminent Victorians - Lytton Strachey - Microsoft Reader eBook |
| | Eminent Victorians - Lytton Strachey - Microsoft Reader eBook | | | The eBook club is continually growing with more eBooks added frequently. | | | Restrictions: No printing, No copy and paste (More Details) |
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http://www.ebookmall.com/ebook/78647-ebook.htm
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